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Mental Health Coming Off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v4

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n3ophy7e said:
This is probably not going to make either of you feel any better right now, but I have been following this thread for a long time now and 4-5 months off invega is not that long in the grand scheme of things. It's still relatively early in the recovery process. But over time you will definitely keep noticing that you recover more and more as the months go on. I know that doesn't help right now, but perhaps it might give you guys a bit of hope?


Yes you are right, the main theory of schizophrenia that psychiatrists refer to is the dopamine theory, which says that the mainly problematic symptoms of schizophrenia e.g. hallucinations, delusions, paranoia etc, are caused by too much dopamine in one particular area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens. Antipsychotics such as invega are meant to significantly reduce the amount of dopamine released in this area of the brain. We could get much more technical about it, of course, but that is the basic theory.


The brain is incredibly awesome at repairing itself over time, by neuroplasticity, so in theory the damage should not be permanent at all. So it's just a matter of WHEN your brain recovers, not IF.
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This actually gives me hope. These 5 months have been HORRIBLE. I cannot give up on my life. It's so precious. I'd like to believe that the brain can heal everything. I'm really exhausted.
 
Koolio254 said:
This actually gives me hope. These 5 months have been HORRIBLE. I cannot give up on my life. It's so precious. I'd like to believe that the brain can heal everything. I'm really exhausted.
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I also meant to say that I have read A LOT of really positive posts in this thread, of people who have eventually recovered 100% or close to it, after perhaps 12-15 months. So yes, there definitely is hope!!!! Please just try to trudge through the shittiness now, and have hope that it will get better <3
 
n3ophy7e said:
4-5 months off invega is not that long in the grand scheme of things
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Goddamnit that is too long for me ...one fucking shot and you're a vegetable for 1 year straight...if you are lucky... thats pretty fucking scandelous.don't want to sound negative but I'm on the verge of killing myself. This is too long for me i have no patience i already lost like 1 year to psychiatry and anti psychotics. The exhaustion comes from having no rest from sleep AT ALL...and its absolutely shit to see nobody having improvements at month 5 or 6 just want this nightmare to be over with. Just being at month 3 and knowing 6 will be shit as well is discouraging

Goddamnit i'm so close to killing myself
 
apsucks said:
Goddamnit that is long for me ...one fucking shot and you're a vegetable for 1 year straight...if you are lucky... thats pretty fucking scandelous.don't want to sound negative but I'm on the verge of killing myself. This is too long for me i have no patience i already lost like 1 year to psychiatry and anti psychotics
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I know it's been really fucking hard for you, especially now when you're just totally over it. I wish there was more I could say to you other than to please just hold on, take each excruciating day one at a time, because over time things will gradually improve.
 
Goddamnit i already spend 3 times in the psych ward this year...first time i got haldol injections for almost an entire month recovering from that already took me like 4 months i couldn't even get groceries out of the car..now i have to wait another year or more if i'm lucky. This invega stuff is pure lunacy.

I don't want to sound like an idiot ross boehm took like +20 injections but this whole psychiatrt thing destroyed my soul
 
Koolio254 said:
Man there's no way to tell if we'll ever go back to homeostasis. Only time will tell bro. You should remember that invega works on blocking other receptors not just dopamine and serotonin.
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Invega literally blocks like 9 of the most important receptors you can think of ... this got nothing to do with the D2 hypothesis of schizophrenia..blocking everything like that is pure death
 
apsucks said:
Invega literally blocks like 9 of the most important receptors you can think of ... this got nothing to do with the D2 hypothesis of schizophrenia..blocking everything like that is pure death
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I agree with you because before invega I used to take olanzapine and it never did to me like the way invega did to me.
 
I am 4 months off and I haven’t seen any kind of improvement. It’s seems like my left side of the brain it’s turned off, I can’t feel passage of time, atmospherics phenomenals, no emotions, can’t watch tv because it’s too difficult to follow, can’t read books easily, I can’t do anything it’s even difficult to take a shower. I don’t know what to say it’s like I have a hole in my mind. This is worst than everything, nothing is worse than Invega.
 
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Mick04 said:
Now I’m all day at home I can’t work like that, and you?
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I go to work everyday in an office setting. It makes it easier because I talk to people, but the hard is having to concentrate twice as much to get anything done.
 
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